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MILLER LUMBER CO. 



l.ipi.i'd Ir, 111 .Mouiu.-. Wis. In MilwulilvT n.mil.v a siirvi'.v iiiiidr li.v 111.' 

 r.M.v Stouts sliiiws that tUfre are 1.2U0 blac-k walnut trees vvliich cau be 

 used for a selection of timber lor government needs. Cutting of this sup 

 pl.v will be started as soon as word is received from Washington. 



W. W. Brown, who has served the Hamilton Manufacturing Company, 

 Two Rivers, Wis., as a lumber expert for many years, has resigned tu 

 .■Kcept a position with the gnvernment as a purchasing agent and inspector 

 <.r hardwood material for war needs. 



The Spies-Thompson Lumber Company, Marinette, Wis., and Menominee. 

 Mich., on October 1 found it necessary to reduce operations because of a 

 shortage of logs and a laclc of men to maintain production at the rate in 

 effect during the summer months. For several days the plant was prac- 

 tically closed down, but arrangements were nmde whereby operations could 

 bo resumed on at least a partial scale by a gradual replenishment of the 

 log supply. 



fe vice-president of the Menasha 

 . recently spent ten days at his 

 ive work as an instructor at Camp 

 ice a year ago with one of the first 

 lonths of hard service in the front 

 ek to America to instruct new units 



lines. In September he was ilet 

 lieiug trained for overseas service. 



The steam yacht Bonlta. for many years the pleasure craft of the late 

 (X-Senator Isaac Stephenson, Marinette, Wis., has been sold by his estate 

 to Nelson & Green, Green Bay, Wis., who intend to rebuild the vessel and 

 use it for commercial purposes. The yacht is 128 feet long and was built 

 in the Detroit river in 1895. It was taken out of commission about two 

 years ago because shipyards on the Great Lakes were so busy on govern- 

 ment contracts that they could not handle private repair work. 



Arthur J. Woodcock, son of Charles H. Woodcock, formerly a widely 

 known lumberman of Rhinelandcr, Wis., has been commissioned a second 

 lieutenant at Camp Grant, 111. Lieut. Woodcock moved from Rhinelandcr 

 with his parents four years ago to Portland, Ore., where his father now is 

 acting as government inspector of Indian reservations for Washington and 

 Oregon. 



Sawmill and lumber manufacturing plants at Wausau, Wis., have been 

 notified by the common council that hereafter they will be obliged to pay 

 metered rates for water supplies for sprinkler system and other fire pro- 

 lection purposes. The minimum charge for each plant per month is $G. 

 I'lant owners have fought the charge for several years, on the ground 

 that it was unfair and discriminatory that they should pay for the privi- 



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The Hardwood Market 



< CHICAGO >■ ^= 



The Chicago trade is beginning to get straightened out in a measure on 

 embargo matters and is finding practical demonstration that the purpose 

 of the embargo order was not to harm the lumber trade, but to provide 

 regulatory measures that would aftord means of properly governing move- 

 ments where they were not strictly essential. The local factory business 

 operating on goods not closely allied to the war pin-ram, is inactive, buy- 

 ing neither plentifully nor regularly of ihr i;i,nlr~ u.iiii« into non-essentials. 

 On the other hand, Chicago factories m.- liikini. mh more and more con- 

 tracts and sub-contracts connected witli ibe war. and the local marketi 

 Are providing a constantly increasing outlet for hardwood stocks. 



Trices are showing encouraging firmness in spite of influences In tin 

 other direction. 



^- =•< BUFFALO > = 



A state of unsottlement as well as quiet prevails in the hardwood trade. 

 Some shipments are being made under permits, but the demand has fallen 

 off considerably on account of the railroad embargo. Wholesalers believe 

 that a fair trade will be carried on during this month, though a good many 

 customers are already fairly well provided with stocks bought some weeks 

 ago. The embargo did not take the trade entirely by surprise, though it 

 arrived a little sooner than it was looked for. Buffalo yards were pretty 

 well provided with stocks. 



=^ PITTSBURGH >•= 



Hardwood matters are very lax at present, although there is mora 

 doing in this line of lumber business than in any other. The govern- 

 ment ch'mand for walnut, ash and locust timber is perhaps the feature of 

 the business. Industiiil trade is limited chiefly to the current needs of 

 steel concerns and other big industrial plants in tri-state territory. Fur 

 nlture and automobile manufacturers are buying little, and yard demand 

 amounts to practically nothing. Railroad inquiry, too, is very spasmodic 



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